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THE REPRESENTATION OF DANCE IN AUSTRALIAN NOVEL...

This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since
the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously portrayed  how the word 'dance'
is used metaphorically to convey actual or imagined movement  and how dance is written in a
novelistic form. The author employs a wide range of theoretical approaches including
postcolonial studies  theories concerned with class  gender  metaphor and dance and  in
particular  Jung's concept of the shadow and theories concerned with vision. Through these
variegated approaches  the study critiques the common view that dance is an expression of joie
de vivre  liberation  transcendence  order and beauty. This text also probes issues concerned
with the enactment of dance in Australia and abroad  and contributes to an understanding of how
dance is 'translated' into literature. It makes an important contribution because the study of
dance in Australian literature has been minimal  and this despite the reality that dance is
prolific in Australian novels.

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